An investigation is underway to determine how a woman was shot in the head near a school in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
The incident happened shortly after 4 p.m. at 1925 Stuart Street, prompting a lockdown at the neighboring Marine Park junior high school.Police are looking into whether the victim suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They are looking into both witness accounts and evidence as they continue to investigate.
Police later caught up with him and took him into custody. Right now, he's considered a person of interest and no charges have been filed.However, inside the school, dozens of frightened students like 12-year-old Kamiyah Marrero had to stay in the auditorium.A pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, Feb. 18, 2021, in New York.
"It's scary as a mom, you know you send your kids to school and you know, you don't expect nothing like this to happen," mother Iheishah Civil said.